| 词条 | Herbert Benson |
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| name = Herbert Benson | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1935}} | birth_place = Yonkers, New York, US | death_date = | death_place = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = U.S. | fields = Medicine, physiology | workplaces = Harvard Medical School Beth Israel Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital Andover Newton Theological School | patrons = | alma_mater = Harvard Medical School | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = Great Prayer Experiment Benson-Henry Institute | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = | spouse = Marilyn Benson | children = 2, Jennifer and Gregory }}Herbert Benson (born 1935), is an American medical doctor, cardiologist, and founder of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. He is a professor of mind/body medicine at Harvard Medical School and director emeritus of the Benson-Henry Institute (BHI) at MGH. He is a founding trustee of The American Institute of Stress. He has contributed more than 190 scientific publications and 12 books.[1] More than five million copies of his books have been printed in different languages.[2][3] Started in 1998,[4] Benson became the leader of the so-called "Great Prayer Experiment," or technically the "Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP)." The result published in 2006 concluded that intercessory prayer has no beneficial effect on patients with coronary artery bypass graft surgery.[5] He, however, still believes that prayer has positive health benefits.[6] Benson coined relaxation response (and wrote a book by the same title) as a scientific term for meditation, and he used it to describe the ability of the body to stimulate relaxation of muscle and organs.[7] BiographyBenson was born in Yonkers, New York. He graduated with B.A. in biology from Wesleyan University in 1957. He entered a medical course at Harvard Medical School and earned his MD degree in 1961. He continued postdoctoral programs at King County Hospital, Seattle; University Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle; National Heart Institute, Bethesda; University of Puerto Rico; and Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston City Hospital. In 1969 He was appointed instructor in physiology and later instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was promoted to assistant professor of medicine the next year. From 1972 he became associate professor. He was appointed associate professor at the Beth Israel Hospital in 1977, the post he held until 1987. Then he returned to the medical faculty at Harvard. With the establishment of Mind/Body Medical Institute at Harvard in 1992, he became associate professor, and is now full professor. He is a practicing physician at Beth Israel Hospital since 1974. Between 1990 and 1997 he was lecturer in medicine and religion at Andover Newton Theological School, Newton Centre.[8][9] Benson became founding president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute of Harvard Medical School in 1988. He founded the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine of the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2006,[10] where he became its director.[1] Notable projectsMind body medicineIn the 1960s at Harvard Medical School,[11] Benson has pioneered mind-body research, focusing on stress and the relaxation response in medicine. In his research, the mind and body are one system, in which meditation can play a significant role in reducing stress responses. He continues to pioneer medical research into bodymind questions. He introduced the term relaxation response as a scientific alternative for meditation. According to him, relaxation response is the ability of the body to induce decreased activity of muscle and organs. It is an opposite reaction to the fight-or-flight response.[7] With Robert Keith Wallace, he observed that relaxation response reduced metabolism, rate of breathing, heart rate, and brain activity.[1][12] Intercessory prayer{{See also|Studies on intercessory prayer}}In 1998, Benson started a research project on the efficacy of prayer among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. The project, funded by the John Templeton Foundation, was explicit that its objective was not to prove or disprove the existence of god.[4] This "Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP)" became popularly known as the "Great Prayer Experiment"[13] and was described as "the most intense investigation ever undertaken of whether prayer can help to heal illness."[14] The trial attempted to differentiate among outcomes in three groups of patients: (1) those uncertain of whether they were being prayed for, who were; (2) those uncertain of whether they were being prayed for, who were not; and (3) those being prayed for who were certain of it. The conclusion, published in 2006, was that intercessory prayer has no beneficial effect on CABG patients.[5][15][16] Indeed, certainty of receiving intercessory prayer was actually associated with a higher incidence of complications. Personal lifeBenson married Marilyn Benson, and they have two children, Jennifer and Gregory.[9] Awards and honours
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References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=Dr. Herbert Benson|url=http://www.bensonhenryinstitute.org/about/dr-herbert-benson|publisher=Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine|accessdate=12 July 2014|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714093528/http://bensonhenryinstitute.org/about/dr-herbert-benson|archivedate=14 July 2014|df=}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=Dr. Herbert Benson|url=http://www.legacyofwisdom.org/legacy-of-wisdom/en/library/interviewees/herbert_benson.html|website=The Legacy of Wisdon Project|accessdate=12 July 2014}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=2000 Hans Selye Award|url=http://www.stress.org/herbert-benson-m-d/|publisher=The American Institute of Stress|accessdate=12 July 2014}} 4. ^1 {{cite journal|last1=Dusek|first1=Jeffery A.|last2=Sherwood|first2=Jane B.|last3=Friedman|first3=Richard|last4=Myers|first4=Patricia|last5=Bethea|first5=Charles F.|last6=Levitsky|first6=Sidney|last7=Hill|first7=Peter C.|last8=Jain|first8=Manoj K.|last9=Kopecky|first9=Stephen L.|last10=Mueller|first10=Paul S.|last11=Lam|first11=Peter|last12=Benson|first12=Herbert|last13=Hibberd|first13=Patricia L.|title=Study of the therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer (STEP): Study design and research methods|journal=American Heart Journal|year=2002|volume=143|issue=4|pages=577–584|doi=10.1067/mhj.2002.122172|pmid=11923793}} 5. ^1 {{cite journal|last1=Benson|first1=Herbert|last2=Dusek|first2=Jeffery A.|last3=Sherwood|first3=Jane B.|last4=Lam|first4=Peter|last5=Bethea|first5=Charles F.|last6=Carpenter|first6=William|last7=Levitsky|first7=Sidney|last8=Hill|first8=Peter C.|last9=Clem|first9=Donald W.|last10=Jain|first10=Manoj K.|last11=Drumel|first11=David|last12=Kopecky|first12=Stephen L.|last13=Mueller|first13=Paul S.|last14=Marek|first14=Dean|last15=Rollins|first15=Sue|last16=Hibberd|first16=Patricia L.|title=Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients: A multicenter randomized trial of uncertainty and certainty of receiving intercessory prayer|journal=American Heart Journal|year=2006|volume=151|issue=4|pages=934–942|doi=10.1016/j.ahj.2005.05.028|pmid=16569567}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Dr Herbert Benson: Prayer Has a Therapeutic Effect|url=http://visualmeditation.gr/en/dr-herbert-benson-prayer-has-a-therapeutic-effect/|publisher=VISUAL MEDITATION|accessdate=12 July 2014}} 7. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Mitchell|first1=Marilyn|title=Dr. Herbert Benson’s Relaxation Response|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/heart-and-soul-healing/201303/dr-herbert-benson-s-relaxation-response|accessdate=12 July 2014|work=Psychology Today|publisher=Sussex Publishers, LLC|date=29 March 2013}} 8. ^{{cite web|last1=Benson|first1=Herbert|title=Curriculum Vitae|url=http://www.massgeneral.org/bhi/assets/pdfs/benson_cv.pdf|publisher=Massachusetts General Hospital|accessdate=12 July 2014|year=2011}} 9. ^1 {{cite web|title=Benson, Herbert, 1935- . Papers, 1960–2003: A Finding Aid|url=http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~med00061|website=Oasis: Harvard University Library|publisher=President and Fellows of Harvard College|accessdate=12 July 2014|date=26 August 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140703003508/http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~med00061|archive-date=2014-07-03|dead-url=yes|df=}} 10. ^{{cite web|title=About the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine|url=http://www.bensonhenryinstitute.org/about/mission-and-history|publisher=Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine|accessdate=12 July 2014|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714073027/http://bensonhenryinstitute.org/about/mission-and-history|archivedate=14 July 2014|df=}} 11. ^Massachusetts General Hospital, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, https://www.bensonhenryinstitute.org/about/mission-and-history 12. ^{{cite news|last1=Emory|first1=Margaret|title=Dr. Herbert Benson on the Mind/Body Connection|url=http://brainworldmagazine.com/dr-herbert-benson-on-the-mindbody-connection/|accessdate=12 July 2014|work=BrainWorld|date=15 December 2011}} 13. ^{{cite web|last1=Gamble|first1=Dave|title=Scientific Studies of Prayer – the good, the bad, and the really really ugly|url=http://www.skeptical-science.com/science/scientific-studies-prayer-good-bad-ugly/|website=Skeptical Science|accessdate=12 July 2014|date=30 June 2013}} 14. ^{{cite journal|last1=Weissmann|first1=G.|title=NIH funding: not a prayer|journal=The FASEB Journal|year=2006|volume=20|issue=9|pages=1278–1280|doi=10.1096/fj.06-0701ufm|pmid=16816099}} 15. ^{{cite web|title=Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP)|url=http://www.templeton.org/newsroom/press_releases/060407step.html|publisher=John Templeton Foundation|accessdate=12 July 2014|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140616102628/http://www.templeton.org/newsroom/press_releases/060407step.html|archivedate=16 June 2014|df=}} 16. ^{{cite news|last1=Cromie|first1=William J.|title=Prayers don't help heart surgery patients|url=http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/04.06/05-prayer.html|accessdate=12 July 2014|work=Harvard University Gazette|publisher=President and Fellows of Harvard College|date=6 April 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140430102319/http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/04.06/05-prayer.html|archive-date=2014-04-30|dead-url=yes|df=}} Additional sources
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